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A handmade Amish quilt makes a comfortable bed spread and a family heirloom to be passed from generation to generation. Each quilt is handmade with love by one of our fine quilters. The Lone Star quilt is a beautiful example of a traditional quilt pattern. It is made with shades of purple fabrics with a scalloped border edged with a dark purple binding. This specific quilt is initialed and dated and quilted with 264 yards of thread by one talented Amish lady named, Elizabeth Miller, to ensure consistent stitching. On a queen-size bed, this quilt will allow 20 inches of drop per side.
Measures 101″ x 114″ long.
Homemade quilts combine the warmth of a bed cover with a unique story told by the quilters from Lancaster County, PA. Every homemade quilt is as unique as the family, busy mother or Amish ladies group who uses a needle and thimble to thread stitch on the quilt. Some quilts involve hundreds of hours and thousands of stitches to create a unique patchwork quilt that will last for generations.
When you peruse our HOMEMADE QUILTS you are shopping for an item that tells a story and adds meaning to your bedroom! Discover more about our unique patchwork quilts and the stories behind them…
We have a lot of quilts! Want to see a gallery of the major patterns? Checkout our Common Amish Quilt Patterns.
Called a “charm” quilt in the late 19th century, young women collected hundreds of different fabrics from their family and friends. Perhaps if they collected 999 different squares, their true love would bring them the thousandth–and their happily-ever-after dream, too. One quilting blogger speculates that collecting these fabrics may have given girls opportunities to ask their love interest for a contribution!
The scrap quilt has also been called a “beggar” quilt, referring to quilters asking each other for contributions to their projects. Trying to put together a bedspread without repeating every fabric, they also called the quilts “odd feller” quilts–every piece was an odd feller. Some families recall their mother repeating one square, however, so that a child sick in bed might be entertained looking for the matching patches.
Still another name scrap quilts went by is the “postage stamp” quilt, so called because quilters would use their tiniest scraps, sometimes no bigger than a postage stamp. Perhaps the original motivation was not wasting the smallest piece (historians recall the scarcity of the Great Depression in this), but it also became a challenge at some point. Quilters would collect thousands of pieces to compete with each other in making stitched masterpieces.
The term handmade is generally used to define crafts created by an artisan in contrast to a factory. Each handmade quilt is special due to the fact that it is not mass-produced. Not all the stitching in a handcrafted quilt is done by hand. Just as the woodcrafter makes use of mechanical devices to develop his workmanship, our seamstresses use various devices to craft these quilts. The seamstress cuts her pieces with a rotating knife and stitch them together on the sewing machine. The quilter deals with merely needle, thimble, and string to quilt numerous small stitches throughout the quilt. Handmade is a gift: it is the gift of time and talent to produce an item distinctly for you.
A quilt is not only a comfy bed cover: it is also a piece of artwork. The artists that create our quilts choose high quality vibrant fabrics and arrange them in an eye-catching work of art. Select from our stock of over 2 hundred Amish handmade quilts for a quilt that perfectly enhances your taste.
Although the fabric pieces are stitched with each other by machine to ensure tighter stitching, all the quilting is done by hand. 100% cotton fabrics compose the top and bottom of the quilt. The batting sandwiched between those 2 layers, nonetheless, is 100% polyester. This polyester batting warranties both heat and outstanding washing outcomes.
Almost all of our quilts are generous enough to reduce the necessity for a dust ruffle or pillow shams. Just as mattress heights are different, each quilt's overall size is different. We list the quilt's measurements together with the determined drop for you to compare to the dimensions you are trying to find. Kindly do your homework ahead of your purchase!Fortunately, our quilts are certainly washable in a washing machine! We advise complying with these guidelines for ideal handling results: